Bovema vertical louvre systems, Unilab MK-1V provide energy efficient air inlet or extract units as required for industrial buildings, plant rooms or other applications where high air volumes and high levels of weather protection are required together.
The vertical blade louvre systems offer much better protection against the ingress of wind driven rain or snow when compared to standard louvres with horizontal blades.
The Unilab MK-1V louvres are designed for minimum maintenance and are manufactured in accordance with quality control standards NEN-EN-ISO 9002, from corrosion resistant aluminium, to provide a long and trouble free operational lifespan.
The robust and attractive system with its lightweight vertical panels is quite shallow and can be built flush into most wall constructions. This together with an extensive range of sizes means the vertical louvre system is suitable for most installations.
The Unilab MK-1V has an overlapping internal baffle to maximise protection against wind driven rain or snow.
The UNILAB -1V unit can also be used as a sand or dust filter to minimise the penetration of wind driven particles into the building.
In many instances the machinery within the building produces high internal noise levels and sound attenuation to limit or prevent this noise breakout is a requirement of the ventilation system for environmental purposes.
Both vertical ventilation units provide a limited level of noise protection and the Unilab MK-1V ventilator with its vertical box section construction is ideally suited for the attachment of sound attenuator units.
Units can have purpose designed internal sound attenuation boxes added, to meet any practically achievable design requirement for noise reduction.
Stainless-steel bird and insect meshes can also be fitted to the external or internal louvre faces. Both types of vertical wall louvres are designed to provide permanent ventilation and shut off dampers or moving blades are not provided. Separate internal damper units can be added to the system where volume control or shut off is required.
Outside air enters the front of the louvre box. The air is then directed through a labyrinth system which changes its direction several times before allowing it to emerge from the rear of the louvre. The water or snow or dust has greater inertia than the air and its reluctance to change direction causes it to be deposited on the sides of the vertical drainage channels. It then runs vertically to the base of the louvre where it is expelled to the outside via a bottom drainage channel.
The Unilab Mk1V is useful for:
- Power Stations;
- Waste or compost process plants;
- Industrial process plant;
- Enclosed car parks;
- Buildings in hot dusty environments;
- Electricity generation stations;
- Plant room inlets to air conditioning mechanical ventilation systems.
The Unilab MK-1V louvres are supplied as standard in fully assembled units, ready for direct installation into prepared openings. The louvres may also be supplied in broken down form for site assembly. This allows the construction of long continuous units where required.
The standard product is supplied in mill finished aluminium but coating in polyester powder paint to any RAL colour selected from the standard Bovema range is available. Additional items such as bird guards, insect meshes, and burglar guards may be provided, and sound attenuation units are available for the UNILAB-1V unit only.
The base flanges are manufactured to match individual project requirements and are fully welded to ensure they are completely waterproof.